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President Obama’s historic visit to Ghana July 10 to 11, 2009 is noteworthy in so many ways. He is the first African-American to become president of America, and Ghana is the first African country he is visiting since becoming president.…

Nigeria’s cocoa association cut its production target for the 2009-10 harvest by as much as 10 percent because farmers are using illegal, poor-quality pesticides to spray their crops. Nigeria, the world’s fourth-largest cocoa exporter, may…

Asian stocks fell for a third day as a drop in profit at Seven & I Holdings Co., Japan’s largest retailer, and worsening job markets in the U.S. and Europe fanned doubts the global economy will recover soon. Seven & I tumbled 6.3…

The investigation of Michael Jackson's death is widening as questions intensify about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them and the actions of police. Why didn't police seal the mansion where he had been living? Why were…

Top California lawmakers raised hope on Thursday that an elusive budget deal could be at hand, as officials began issuing billions of dollars in "IOUs" to avoid a cash crisis on the second day of a new fiscal year without an agreement to…

The U.S. Treasury Department may begin its program to spur purchases of mortgage-backed securities from banks with about $20 billion in public and private money, down from as much as $100 billion when it was announced in March, two people…

People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday. A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people…

A five-year US$250m Volta Economic Development Plan (VEDP) was on Tuesday night launched to bring real improvements that would change the lives of people of the Volta Region and, by extension, lives of Ghanaians. The focus of this…

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) on Tuesday launched the 10th Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) conference, which is slated in Accra from August 3 to August 9. About 2,000 delegates are expected to attend the conference,…

Public procurement is critical to the enforcement of fiscal discipline, reduction in unproductive recurrent expenditure and the improvement in revenue generation. Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, said this in…